Do Privacy Fears Allow Terrorism?

carbon3C writes "Privacy advocates are luddites, says Heather MacDonald, a lawyer at the Manhattan Institute. She says we should shut up and let the government do what it wants. Our government only wants to protect us, and would never misuse technology. How do we send a clear message that non-luddites (conservative and liberal) are concerned about privacy precisely because we do know so much about technology?" Leaving your front door wide open is a great idea, until someone you don't know walks through it.

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Re:FP against War!!

[dbrutus]

And that prayer is more necessary than ever since there is a death cult marching the land who thinks it wise to kill themselves and as many others as they can. They want a world where if you are not muslim, your word is not equal to theirs in court. They demand a world where people have to pay differential taxes greater than muslims and minority religions and atheists are just killed out of hand.

Yes, let's pray for peace but not cry out peace, peace, when there is no peace.

Let's also not fool ourselves into thinking that keeping databases is going to do more than paper over the problem of the death cult.